Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
Genre Isn’t Broccoli
Nov 14, 2012
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I’ve recently finished The Pilot’s Wife by Anita Shreve. Published 1998, most people have probably already enjoyed it. If not, I’d recommend it as a good beach read. I bought the novel at a bookstore that specializes in mysteries and having completed it, I’m hard pressed to
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The Coming of Virgin Births
Nov 13, 2012
In Aldus Huxley’s Brave New World, children are created and raised without parents in Hatcheries and Conditioning Centers where they are divided into castes ranging from the highest, Alpha, to the lowest, Epsilon. The society is one without parents or nurturing, and people’s moods
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The Dawkins Delusion
Nov 12, 2012
In October, I went to hear Richard Dawkins speak on secularism. He was promoting his latest book, The Magic of Reality and as I’d read and admired his earlier work, The God Delusion, I was eager to hear him. For many in the room of approximately 500, the lecture must have been satis
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Shunning the New York Times Book Review
Nov 09, 2012
Recently, I joined a small group of local writers, some published by small presses and others self-published. Our purpose was to share ideas on how to promote books. Nine of us gathered at the home of writer/attorney, Susan Stoner, whose two novels, Timber Beasts and Land Sharks I’v
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Why Can’t A Man Be More Like A Woman?
Nov 08, 2012
Garrison Keillor of Lake Woebegone and Prairie Home Companion fame, wrote a short article entitled “Of Vice and Men,” a memoir about his younger days of striving to be a writer. Guided by the belief that ,” A true artists must engage with dark forces,” (The Week, 10/3/12, pg.
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At the Half Way Mark and Slogging
Nov 07, 2012
I’m half way through The Pilot’s Wife by Anita Shreve. It was one of my recent $1 finds. (See Blog 10/10/12) I picked it up because Oprah’s Book Club recommended it, though I don’t know why. I’ve always been disappointed by their choices. So far, my experience with Shreve’
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To Hide or Not to Hide — That is the Question
Nov 06, 2012
Recently my face was on a billboard with a slogan that read: “I am a secularist and I vote.” I sent a photo of the sign to a friend in Canada, thinking she’d be amused. Instead, she emailed to ask if I wasn’t afraid to identify myself as an atheist. Given the rise in conservat
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A Happy Find Among the Clutter
Nov 05, 2012
Meg Wolitzer, author of The Uncoupling, recently observed that one of the virtues of being disorganized is that in sorting through her piles of “stuff, ”she sometimes rediscovers unrelated lost treasures.” (“The Secret Delights of Disorder by Meg Wolitzer, More, 10/12, pg. 184
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The Irony of Truth
Nov 02, 2012
As I mentioned in yesterday’s blog, my publisher and I recently talked for over an hour about whether I should make some last minute changes in my upcoming novel, Trompe l’Oeil. She was concerned about the book’s complexity and whether or not I should give the reader more clues.
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Portland, Oregon author Caroline Miller had distinguished careers as an educator, union president, elected official and artist/advocate.
Her play, Woman on the Scarlet Beast, was performed at the Post5 Theatre, Portland, OR, January/February 2015
Caroline published a serialized novelette, Marie Eau-Claire, on the website, The Colored Lens. She also published the story Gustav Pavel, a parable about ordinary lives, choice and alternate potential, on the website Fixional.co.
Caroline has published five novels
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